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Unter diesem Regime ist es sowas von unwahrscheinlich, dass diese Daten missbraucht werden.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/4-health-trackers-id-recommend-to-anyone-and-why-they-make-such-a-big-difference/

Just saw this:
#AI can mean a lot of things these days, but lots of the popular meanings imply a bevy of harms that I definitely wouldn't feel are worth a cute fish game. In fact, these harms are so acute that even "just" playing into the AI hype becomes its own kind of harm (it's similar to blockchain in that way).
@… noticed that the authors claim the code base is 80% AI generated, which is a red flag because people with sound moral compasses wouldn't be using AI to "help" write code in the first place. The authors aren't by some miracle people who couldn't build this app without help, in case that influences your thinking about it: they have the skills to write the code themselves, although it likely would have taken longer (but also been better).
I was more interested in the fish-classification AI, and how much it might be dependent on datacenters. Thankfully, a quick glance at the code confirms they're using ONNX and running a self-trained neural network on your device. While the exponentially-increasing energy & water demands of datacenters to support billion-parameter models are a real concern, this is not that. Even a non-AI game can burn a lot of cycles on someone's phone, and I don't think there's anything to complain about energy-wise if we're just using cycles on the end user's device as long as we're not having them keep it on for hours crunching numbers like blockchain stuff does. Running whatever stuff locally while the user is playing a game is a negligible environmental concern, unlike, say, calling out to ChatGPT where you're directly feeding datacenter demand. Since they claimed to have trained the network themselves, and since it's actually totally reasonable to make your own dataset for this and get good-enough-for-a-silly-game results with just a few hundred examples, I don't have any ethical objections to the data sourcing or training processes either. Hooray! This is finally an example of "ethical use of neutral networks" that I can hold up as an example of what people should be doing instead of the BS they are doing.
But wait... Remember what I said about feeding the AI hype being its own form of harm? Yeah, between using AI tools for coding and calling their classifier "AI" in a way that makes it seem like the same kind of thing as ChatGPT et al., they're leaning into the hype rather than helping restrain it. And that means they're causing harm. Big AI companies can point to them and say "look AI enables cute things you like" when AI didn't actually enable it. So I'm feeling meh about this cute game and won't be sharing it aside from this post. If you love the cute fish, you don't really have to feel bad for playing with it, but I'd feel bad for advertising it without a disclaimer.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Mazzy Star:
🎵 Bells Ring
#MazzyStar
https://mersilde.bandcamp.com/track/bells-ring-mazzy-star-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/5AabqkMATMr8zsfPS5yJnr

Personalized feature threshold estimation in joint modelling of longitudinal and time-to-event data
Mirajul Islam, Michael J. Daniels, Juned Siddique
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17835

Personalized feature threshold estimation in joint modelling of longitudinal and time-to-event data
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) cohort studies collect longitudinal data on numerous CVD risk factors including body mass index (BMI), systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), glucose, and total cholesterol. The commonly used threshold values for identifying subjects at high risk are 30 kg/$m^2$ for BMI, 120 mmHg for SBP, 80 mmHg for DBP, 126 mg/dL for glucose, and 230 mg/dL for total cholesterol. When studying the association between features of longitudinal risk factors and…

Physics Of Eclipsing Binaries. IX. Spectroscopic module
Miroslav Bro\v{z}, Andrej Pr\v{s}a, Kyle E. Conroy, Michael Abdul-Masih
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20868

Physics Of Eclipsing Binaries. IX. Spectroscopic module
Spectroscopic observations constrain the fundamental properties of stellar atmospheres, in particular, the effective temperature, the gravitational acceleration, or the metallicity. In this work, we describe the spectroscopic module for Phoebe, which allows for modelling of spectra, either normalized, or in absolute units (${\rm W}\,{\rm m}^{-2}\,{\rm m}^{-1}$). The module is based on extensive grids of synthetic spectra, taken from literature, which are interpolated and integrated over the sur…

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#ClassicalMixtape
- The eclectic classical mix
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music, including pieces by Dvořšk, Rebecca Clarke, Errollyn Wallen, Ola Gjeilo, Percy Grainger and Marcel Tournier.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002dq1g

A validated coupled three-dimensional hydrodynamic and spectral wind-wave model for the western north Atlantic Ocean
Maria Venolia, Reza Marsooli, Jaime R. Calzada
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18803

A validated coupled three-dimensional hydrodynamic and spectral wind-wave model for the western north Atlantic Ocean
Wind-wave and ocean current interactions affect critical coastal and oceanic processes, yet modeling these interactions presents significant challenges. The western North Atlantic Ocean provides an ideal test environment for coupled hydrodynamics and wind wave models, thanks to its energetic surface currents such as the Gulf Stream. This study evaluates a high-resolution coupled SCHISM WWM III model, utilizing NOAA's 'STOFS-3D-Atlantic' computational mesh, while incorporating three-dimensional …

A Igreja Católica, mais próxima do ateu e ímpio Bloco que do "catolicíssimo" CDS, do PSD e do Chunga então nem se fala.
https://expresso.pt/sociedade/migracoes/2025-07-21-igreja-ca…

Igreja Católica pede a Marcelo que envie lei de estrangeiros para Tribunal Constitucional

Há "uma medida que roça o inconstitucional, que é retirar um direito que é constituído e consagrado na Constituição, que é o dos migrantes poderem interpor recurso diretamente à justiça", alerta Fórum de Organizações Católicas para a Imigração

Me apunto al #miercolesderelojesdepulsera con uno que heredé de alguien de la familia. Creo que era de uno de mis tíos que fusilaron en 1936, pero no estoy seguro al 100%. Es, obviamente, de cuerda y adelantaba un minuto por día. La caja es de plata y la correa se la puse nueva hace años.

Physics Of Eclipsing Binaries. VII. Interferometric module
Miroslav Bro\v{z}, Andrej Pr\v{s}a, Kyle E. Conroy, Al\v{z}b\v{e}ta Opli\v{s}tilov\'a, Martin Horvat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20865

Physics Of Eclipsing Binaries. VII. Interferometric module
Interferometric measurements are essential to constrain models of stellar systems, by spatially resolving angular distances and diameters well below the classical diffraction limit. In this work, we describe the interferometric module of Phoebe, which could be used just for this purpose. Since binaries in Phoebe are represented by a triangular mesh, our complex model is based on the integration over triangles. Consequently, Roche distortion, rotation, non-synchronicity, misalignment, eclipses o…